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three-fold factor, body, mind, spirit. 10
increase il,G,n, my muscular 9 power
my body. Action, purity, self.re
straint, virtue are conditions of bodily
power. The minds the standard of the
man" High thinking means low living,
low living helps to high thinking. am
spirit as well as body and mind man is a
wheel, the body is the felly coming in
contact with the EARTH the mental powers
are the spokes, tho hub is the spirit
through the spokes the hub transmits
power, through the mind the spirit rules
the body. In this self-studv and mastery
| must first of all learn my own limita-
| lions and admit my own weakness. Dis
content is duty there is a beatitude for
spiritual hunger Contentment sits with
folded hands, like the EvaHgelines of the
engraving. Feeling vour weakness is
seeks and finds strength. Ont of a sense
OF need comes the cry for help The sew
| ing machine, the steamships, the tele-
graph, all waited till the world wanted
them; hand buckets, hand machines,
steamers as buildings lifted their heads
higher and higher. Candles give way to
| lamps, these to gas, this to electricity, as
men long for light. In the second place
must dare to be alone. Coleridge tells of
a man who never thought of himself with
ont lifting his own hat, so profound was
his self respect better be that man than
the creature of modern civilization, who
is never so miserable as when thinking of
himself unless it be when left alone.
Finding how much or little | amount to in
body, mind and spirit. What are the laws
OF my beng, what my needs
Second. NV civilization. But what is
civilization? Emerson says Nobody has
attempted definition" Nobody can
succeed if they should attempt. 1t is be
coming more and more complex. My
possessions are either necessities or lux
| * "a "
carry too many arms, become beasts of
| burden, wear our lives out by getting a
living. He is the wisest and richest man
who has fewest points OF contact with
the world and leans lightest upon it,
! The third side is raw material Man
must SIT at natures feet, hoary with wis
! DOM chary of her secrets. She is our
| mother and to each generation is as pro-
digal as to the last the last born genera
ton is the dearest. Mother nature is
played on a single sandy stretch of an
unmeasured shore, the. heights beckon
us, the depths challenge us, the
desert shall yet blossom like
the rose. But to get what is
for us we must study and obey the law of
the world is yours The last side in our
square is fellowmen, There are two ways
OF dealing with men one is to get all you
can out of them, the other to do all you
J can for them. a pure or holy state of
| any thing is that in which all its parts are
| helpful or consistent The highest and
! first law of the universe and the other
name of life is therefore "help" The
other name of death is separation The
| foot prints will turn from us or toward us
as we treat him who makes them, and
they will be deep or shallow as he who
makes them comes empty-handed or
laden, and that will depend upon the
market We offer and the prices
we pay. There are two theories
of life; the selfish and the sacrifcial.
We make the most of life when beneath
the stars that mark the coming and going
OF the centuries above the shifting sands
of time. We so live that beasts of burden
feel safe by our sides, altar fires are shield
ed, weary men find rest in our presence,
woman is elevated and the Christ is eX-
allied over all.
Close of the Annual Meeting of the Ameri-
can Institute.
The exercises of the last day of the
meeting of the American Institute of In
struction began with music by quactette,
consisting of Misses Lemon and Mayo and
Messrs. Bell and Cornell. Rev. f. G. Nc
Farlan, pastor of the First Baptist church
in this city offered prayer. The audience
joined with the choir in singing Corona
ton President Hall announced that at
the last annual meeting committee to
consider the question of federal aid
was appointed and called for re-
port. Mr.. +. c. Carrigan stated that
they had not deemed it advisable to
press the matter at the last session
of Congress and they accordingly adjourn.
ed to meet in Washington at the opening
Of the next Congress. Mr.. Carrigan of
tered the following resolution from the
committee
| Whereas 1t appears by the census of 1854
! that there are in the United States G-2}9.95S
persons 10 years of age and over whs cannot
| read and write; and whereas of these 1905
| SIS are voters and that the number of Hitter
ate voters i'll several States is from thirty to
| fifty per cent Of the whole number OF voters
which is ii constant menace to the national
government ana whereas the legislature OF
| Massachusetts has The last month prov dcd
| by the enactment of mandatory statute
Win penalty tor the compulsory education
| OF ilnterate minors;
RcSO 'red, That the American Institute of
| instruction again respectfully petitions
! Congress for the enactment of law which
shall provide for an appropriation from the
national treasury for the establishment and
maintenance of common schools said appro-
prlation to be distributed to the several States
| on the basis of illteracy.
Remarks being called for, Mr.. W. 5.
| Montgomery of Washington, a member of
the committee, took the platform and In
an eloquent speech advocated the passage
vi an dCl ItuLtllnS letlsTdl dll ana call
ing especial attention to the needs of the
| South.
The resolution was then unanimously
adopted.
President Hall then introduced Thomas
! Emerson, superintendent of the Newton,
Mass, public schools, who made an earn
est plea for Free Textbooks"
MIR. EMERsoN's ADDRESS.
In the discussion l propose to show first
the status of legislation of several States
on the subject second, the extent to
which these States have awaited them
selves of this legislation and third, the
advantages of the free textbook system.
In discussing the first point the speaker
stated to what extent the various States
had supplied free textbooks to their
schools. In seven only have free text
books been provided and in but one of
these, Massachusetts, have free text
books been made compulsory. In the
other States the act is only permissive.
Among the advantages are a saving of
time in buying books by the quantity, and